Tuesday, September 13th, 2011
Photo by Nancy Allen/The Daily Standard

Lou Brown stands next to the sign at his family's dairy outside New Bremen. The dairy received this year's Dairy Environmental Stewardship Award. The Dahlinghaus Farm, also near New Bremen, received the Poultry Environmental Stewardship Award.

Related online story:
Perhaps no farmers receive more scrutiny about how they manage their manure than those in the Grand Lake Watershed.
Two such farmers in Auglaize County were honored recently for their conservation practices. [More]
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